RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Journal of Travel and Natural History. CUL-DAR81.125. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


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Coleoptera — When I show how how high Lamellicorns rank, add, & their affections seem highly developed

We have seen that Lethrus live by pairs & ♀ encourages the ♂ in battles. In another & very different genus Ateuchus the pair seem deeply attached even after pairing, for as is well known that female deposits her eggs in a pellet of dung & female then backwards into a burrow & during this operation the male stands by. (Journal of Travel. p. 135 quote).

[Brulerie, Piochard de la. 1868. Pin-rolling beetles. Journal of Travel and Natural History 1: 135. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U597] PDF
Descent 1: 376: "The two sexes of another lamellicorn beetle, the Ateuchus cicatricosus live in pairs, and seem much attached to each other; the male excites the female to roll the balls of dung in which the ova are deposited; and if she is removed, he becomes much agitated. If the male is removed, the female ceases all work, and as M. Brulerie66 believes, would remain on the spot until she died."
n66: "'Ann. Soc. Entomolog. France,' 1866, as quoted in 'Journal of Travel,' by A. Murray, 1868, p. 135."]


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